This edition of 'Cuse Classics is the Syracuse football team's shocking 17-9 win over No. 1 Nebraska on Sept. 29, 1984. Here are a few notebook items that ran in the next day's edition of The Herald-American.

The following originally appeared in the Sept. 30, 1984 edition of The Herald-American

Marrone writes a letter

As it turns out, Doug Marrone is not only a fine offensive lineman for the Syracuse Orangemen, but also an oracle of sorts. And he claims he submitted written proof of the latter.

"I wrote a letter to Coach (Dick) MacPherson last night and told him what I had to do to have us win this game." Marrone said after SU's unlikely 17-9 victory over top-ranked Nebraska Saturday. "I told him I knew it was up to me to fire up the offensive line. I told him all about the Nebraska defense.

"I ended it by telling him that by Saturday night we would have experienced a great day for Syracuse football both for now and the future."

Asked if he were a confirmed letterwriter, Marrone said no.

"It was just something," he said of his missive to MacPherson. "that I thought I should do."

His next letter? That was to have been written this morning to somebody back home in the Bronx. "And, no," Marrone said. "It won't be to my mother."

Green: SU not in awe of the Cornhuskers

Respect is fine, says Orange defender Tim Green. But awe? Forget it. Green, SU's main man on defense, had none of the latter for Nebraska.

"We said to ourselves that they had 11 men on the field just like we did," Green said of the vaunted Cornhuskers. "It wasn't like they had us 22-11. Who's to say just because it's Nebraska or the Pittsburgh Steelers that we can't beat them?"

Green's three sacks, beamed through most of the nation via Katz Network and USA Network telecasts, will give a big boost to the junior defensive tackle's All-America chances, according to his unit coach, George O'Leary.

"Their guy (290-pound Nebraska left tackle Mark Behning) presented him with a challenge," O'Leary said of Green. "But Timmy's got a lot of pride. He's been here long enough to rise to the occasion."